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"The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one."
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"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

"We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book."

"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep."

"Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head."

"It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep."

"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."

"If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything."
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"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."

"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
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